Thursday, June 7, 2007
3:00 P.M.
Ninety‐Eighth Regular Session
The Assembly met in the Assembly Chamber located in the State Capitol.
Representative Friske in the chair.
The Assembly dispensed with the call of the roll.
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Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 228 offered by committee on Natural Resources.
Assembly amendment 2 to Assembly Bill 283 offered by Representative Gunderson.
Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 285 offered by Representative Bies.
Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 358 offered by Representative Kleefisch.
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Read first time and referred:
Assembly Bill 390
Relating to: restoring the right to vote to a person barred from voting as a result of a felony conviction.
By
Representatives Parisi, A. Williams, Young, Grigsby, Turner, Black, Berceau, Pocan, Zepnick, Kessler, Fields, Schneider, Toles and Pope-Roberts; cosponsored by Senators Risser and Wirch.
To committee on Elections and Constitutional Law
.
Assembly Bill 391
Relating to: records of pupils attending a private school participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program.
By
Representatives Pope-Roberts, Toles, Berceau, Black, Cullen, Fields, Gottlieb, Grigsby, Hixson, Jorgensen, Krusick, A. Ott, Pocan, Richards, Schneider, Sheridan, Sherman, Sinicki, Townsend and Van Akkeren; cosponsored by Senators Taylor, Erpenbach, Lehman and Miller.
To committee on Education Reform
.
Assembly Bill 392
Relating to: covering certain private sector employers and their employees under the health care coverage plan for the state and its employees and making an appropriation.
By
Representatives Hraychuck, Smith, Fields, Grigsby, Gronemus, Berceau, Garthwaite, Hubler, Van Akkeren, Wood, Boyle, Sheridan, Kreuser, Pocan, Parisi, Cullen, Vruwink and Sinicki.
To committee on Insurance.
Assembly Bill 393
Relating to: adding a circuit court branch in Barron, Chippewa, Dodge, Green, Juneau, Monroe, and St. Croix counties.
By
Representative
Bies
; cosponsored by Senator Taylor
, by request of Director of State Courts
.
To committee on Corrections and Courts
.
Assembly Bill 394
Relating to: providing a health savings account option under the Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan.
By
Representatives Nygren, Albers, Ballweg, Bies, Davis, Friske, Gunderson, Hahn, Hines, Hubler, Kerkman, Kestell, F. Lasee, LeMahieu, Mursau, A. Ott, J. Ott, Petrowski, Strachota, Vos and Wood; cosponsored by Senators Harsdorf, Cowles, Darling, Grothman, A. Lasee, Roessler and Schultz.
To committee on Insurance.
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Executive Communications
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
Madison
June 7, 2007
To the Honorable Members of the Assembly:
I am pleased to nominate and with consent of the Assembly, do appoint Judge David Deininger to be a member of the Government Accountability Board for a term to expire May 1, 2009.
Judge Deininger will be available to the Assembly for hearings and my staff will assist in any way they can.
Respectfully submitted,
JIm Doyle
Governor
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
Madison
June 7, 2007
To the Honorable Members of the Assembly:
I am pleased to nominate and with consent of the Assembly, do appoint Judge Gerald Nichol to be a member of the Government Accountability Board for a term to expire May 1, 2012.
Judge Nichol will be available to the Assembly for hearings and my staff will assist in any way they can.
Respectfully submitted,
JIM Doyle
Governor
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State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
Madison
June 7, 2007
To the Honorable Members of the Assembly:
I am pleased to nominate and with consent of the Assembly, do appoint Judge Thomas Cane to be a member of the Government Accountability Board. Judge Cane will serve a term to expire May 1, 2013.
Judge Cane currently sits on the Court of Appeals and will retire July 31, 2007. Therefore, his appointment is effective no sooner than August 1, 2007. Judge Cane will be available to the Assembly for hearings and my staff will assist in any way they can.
Respectfully submitted,
JIm Doyle
Governor
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Communications
May 31, 2007
Patrick Fuller
Assembly Chief Clerk
17 West Main Street, Suite 401
Madison, WI 53708
Dear Chief Clerk Fuller:
I respectfully request that my name be added as a co‐sponsor of Assembly Bill 357, relating to judicial review of an administrative suspension of driving privileges and introduced by Representative Mark Gundrum.
I respectfully request that my name be added as a co‐sponsor of Assembly Bill 373, relating to Witness Exclusions and introduced by Representative Donald Friske.
I respectfully request that my name be added as a co‐sponsor of Assembly Bill 385, relating to the codification for the requirement that DHFS issue payment for at least 95 percent of claims under MA, Badger Care and Senior Care programs within 30 days of receipt of the claims and requires that DHFS issue payment for 100 percent of such claims within 45 days of receipt. This bill was introduced by Representative Donald Friske.
I appreciate your assistance with this matter.
Sincerely,
Carol Roessler
